salt weathering is easy. Use a brush/ spray bottle to wet the surface of your mode, then sprinkle the salt. Let the water dry (this is important). Paint like you would normally. When the paint has cured, take tissue and rub off the salt.

Mirko, thanks I'm in the process of doing just that, many fine washes, almost filters to the upper hull. I'm tempted to try a very restrained dot filtering on some of the panels to add some depth to the white finish, we'll see how it goes.
Erik, one thing I would reccomend for salt weathering is to use a larger grained salt like sea salt, I believe this would give a more random shaped and better sized chip in 1/35 than the table salt I used. I found the smaller grains created a dot pattern in some areas, not a big deal but something to think about.
Thanks for the replies, my parents are in town this weekend so I haven't had much time to work on this, but I did stuff myself on roast beef and yorkshire pudding so I'm not complaining!

Thanks !!! Its realy easy

nice job buddy. hey quick tip to salt weather....ers use two separate water containers. one for your water applying brush and one for your salt adhering brush. i had a weird reaction due to the salty water being spread all over the model.

Trev I just sprinkled the salt straight from the container or with my fingers after I had cought enough in the bottom of the tray to use again. seemed easier to apply than a brush.

yeah, that will definitely be the approach I take next time. I think I may just re-spray the damn thing all over with tamiya dark yellow then just dry brush it with some dark gray or german gray and be done with it. i think maybe 1 coat primer, 1 coat dark gray, 1 coat dark yellow, then dark gray and yellow again. over a coat of paint I put on there last year just may remove any hint of detail. Is six coats of paint too many? i think maybe.

Looking good so far Eric. I don't know if I would be using a sick day to build models. When I am sick I don't want to bother to do anything.

Um.... lose your camera??? I know I'm not the only one checking up on this thing every couple of days. come on! give us something

So its been a while, I appologize, but work and the season have cut into my bench time. Trying to finish stuff up for christmas etc, Im sure you all know the drill. The stug is coming along, I have a few things to fix on it due to "sabotage" around the bench but I'd say its a bout 90%. stared working on the crew, some lightly converted dml flack crew figs, should do the trick with some nice resin noggins.
I'll be sure to put up some much better pics in the new year, have a great holiday and a safe new year!



The missing wheel is wraped in spare track links, looks pretty good.